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Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara, and Magalhaes Pinto, governor of Minas Gerais, have both been running hard to become President of Brazil in 1966 when Castello Branco is scheduled to step down...
...return! He'll return!" they chanted. In Kubitschek's apartment, supporters hoisted the ex-President to their shoulders and carried him to the window. Fans and foes alike rallied to Kubitschek's side. "Abusive, monstrous and violent measure," said Heraclito Sobral Pinto, president of the Brazilian Bar Association and longtime critic of Kubitschek. "The real loser," said Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, "was not Kubitschek but Brazil...
While Carvalho Pinto was talking confidence to businessmen, Goulart gave a magazine interview warning of an impending "social disaster of catastrophic consequences," an interview that sent the cruzeiro tumbling (presently 1,220 to the dollar). While Carvalho Pinto called for austerity, Goulart gave the green light to hire more government employees. Twice Carvalho Pinto submitted his resignation; each time Goulart talked him into staying...
...while, Brazil's powerful leftists were pressuring Goulart to replace Pinto with one of their men. Leading candidate for the job: Leonel Brizola, 41, Goulart's rabble-rousing brother-in-law and anti-Yankee federal Deputy. At first Goulart seemed to resist, then to wobble: "I have not asked any person to take part in the Cabinet. But if I did, I would be using an incontestable, legitimate and constitutional right. The people of Rio gave Brizola the greatest vote they have ever given to a Deputy...
Scoffed Carvalho Pinto: "Brizola has every right to become Minister of Finance, since he fulfills all the constitutional requirements for the job-one of which is to be more than 20 years old." By now Goulart was busily circumscribing Pinto's authority, and Pinto resigned as a matter of duty-"the duty of being coherent at an hour when the demagoguery of some and the greed of others seem to prevail...